GTKRC (themes)

Well, I think there are a lot of new themers who have
trouble understanding gtkrc and think that the widget
factory is some magical app that once you have that
installed and you know how to use it theming becomes
very easy.

So this group I thought I'd start because I know there
are a lot of experienced themers here with a lot of
knowledge and a lot of new themers which have a lot
of questions.

This would be the place to discuss possible bugs
and fixes and ideas and such.

I think we need a place like this because:
"No problem should ever have to be solved twice."

Join if you have any knowledge in gtkrc or are interested
in starting making themes and contributing to this
site!

Useful links:

Object hierarchy (very useful for figuring out how to assign different classes and widgets and for figuring out why things got messed up during your last edit): http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/ch01.html

Nice set of useful links on a number of topic: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/UsefulLinks

now i discovered something which i want to share with you:

i am using pixmap and murrine-engine.

everything that is listed as "widget_class" turns on ugly shadows.

if there is something like
widget_class "*Nautilus*Blabla*" style "toolbar"
than nautilus gets ugly white shadows on toolbar.

if there is something like
widget_class "*Tomboy*" style "menubar"
than tomboy gets ugly white shadows on menubar.

and so on.
it was quite a job to get everything set without as many "widget_class" as possible, but it is possible through "widget" and "class" and i got now a nice dark theme without ugly white shadows.

Starting place for themes

Hey, im very new at creating themes other than hashing together icon themes and mixing and matching existing themes metacity and buttons i have literally no experience, however i am very keen to learn, where can i find some good resources to get me going?

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